If you want to use this space to snark, you are as welcome to it as anyone else. If you want to use it to repeat your boring claims about the "death of literature" and the evils of M.F.A. programs, go do it elsewhere. You sound like you think no one has ever thought about these things before. In truth, your points are hackneyed and trite. People have been proclaiming the "death of literature" for about as long as literature has been in existence, and ranting about M.F.A. programs is such a tired old game it doesn't even qualify as snark. If you can be funny or original, post at this site, if not, go back to your Literary Underground.

And we're not interested in your grandstanding about how much of a "madman" you are either. By the way, if you want to read the blog of a real madman, check out Henry Dagger.

It is Chardin's job, his calling, if you will, to rant about MFA programs and the death of literature. Don't complain & feign boredom over the modern saint's job. His hair shirt is made from the finest, blackest back hair of Bob Bly. It's good work, if you can get it.

You small and runny pile of encephalitis. "American Literature is dead." Where'd you get that insight, the LaBrea fucking tar-pits? Keep raving in your forest, pal, but you are a far, far cry from earning any love/cred from us real snarkers. Your own yawn is bored with you. God knows you're not worth the gurney they'll inevitably strap you down on.

I hope you act as stupidly and insanely in your day-job waiting tables by the vending machine at Sears.

I like less messianic and more entertaining. Amnesty International has a wealth of info on their website, and I never visit it. They write me and call me, and act like they fucking depend on my ten dollars. Thus, Adam, you are absolutely right, and I have read some fabulous snark from you on foetry like the classic "yellow sparrow" bit and the dump on harry potter, so I would urge you to channel less rosie o'donnell and more monty python and - continued success. Snarky, you are one proud turd, and you defend your turf admirably like a horny baboon on nicotine withdrawal. I would definitely put you in a cage.

That's more like it--decent snark--not great snark, but showing at least a hint of flair...

If you must harp, Mr. Hardin, on the the dead horse of M.F.A. programs, at least do it with some bare modicum of creativity, as you do in the post above.

I would however advise you to lay off of Henry Dagger. We've seen what happens to people who go after Mr. D. They wind up starving in a gloomy Chicago apartment, while writing a 10,000+ page apocalyptic fantasy novel (with fully illustrated watercolor accompanyment) about chicks with dicks.